Fulham are well-known for doing their business later in the transfer window, with the majority of players who made an impact last season coming in towards the end of July.

Nevertheless, after winning promotion to the Premier League at Wembley on May 26 after winning the Championship play-off final, there's been very little news on potential incomings at the club leaving fans a tad jittery as the club get back into pre-season training.

Add to that the fact that Fulham have 16 first team players returning, if you don't count Academy members of the squad such as Luca de la Torre and Tayo Edun, it's left fans worrying that the club aren't securing their targets quick enough and that with an earlier deadline this year (August 9) the recruitment team are leaving it late to do deals.

At the moment, it's looking likely that Fulham will have a large influx of players in a short amount of time with just over a month left before the start of the Premier League season and the end of the transfer window, but in all honesty, that isn't something new.

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Let's take a look at last season's signings and when they happened to compare the state of affairs.

This time last summer (July 2) Fulham had Marcelo Djalo and Ibrahima Cisse, with neither having the best of impacts in SW6.

In fact, the signings that came in and had an impact on the way the season panned out for the club only started to arrive during the middle of July in the form of loan signing Lucas Piazon, while Oliver Norwood and Tomas Kalas arrived shortly after that towards the end of the month.

With that all in mind, we've taken a look at why the club haven't completed any deals yet.

Under the lights: Oliver Norwood (Image: Naomi Baker/Getty Images)

Business as normal

Firstly, Fulham usually like to wait in the transfer window as they feel they are able to get a better deal over more protracted negotiations, rather than agreeing to the first price quoted.

It works both ways - Reading came in with a low offer for Sone Aluko last season early in the window, but after a long negotiation period Fulham were able to get around £7million for him - nearly seven times more than what was first offered.

If we take continue the trend of looking back at last season, Fulham only made two signings between the end of the season and the middle of July, as opposed to nine after that date (including loan deals), eight of which happened after July 25.

Sone Aluko (Image: Reading FC)

Of course, Slavisa Jokanovic will want the club to get business done as early as possible so that he can have a near enough full side to work with during pre-season in order to get them to where he wants the club to be, and that is completely understandable from a football sense.

But from a business sense, it doesn't make sense to agree with higher fees in a bid to get deals done sooner and it would set a precedent that other clubs could take advantage of.

Later signings was also the norm the season before too - only three signed before July 14 (Michael Madl, Floyd Ayite and Sone Aluko) while 11 game in after that date, with nine of those after July 19.

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The World Cup

The World Cup was always going to have an impact on deals over the summer, with clubs waiting until after the tournament to do deals in case they can add a few extra numbers on a fee, while players will be hoping to catch club's eyes with their performances.

It's hard to do deal with players when they're embedded in a national team camp too - if you were manager of England, would you want club managers coming into the camp to try and persuade one of your players to play for them next season?

Absolutely not.

With players in the World Cup then heading off on their holidays before the start of the season, it wouldn't be a surprise whatsoever to see a mad dash in the final few weeks of July and the start of August for players.

The loan situation

Fulham have used the loan market to great success in the past two seasons, but now they're in the Premier League that whole avenue changes.

This season, they can only register two loan players at any one time and can only loan one player from each club in the Premier League, meaning they can't have six loanees like they did last year and can't do a loan deal like they did for Tomas Kalas and Lucas Piazon from Chelsea.

Loans were a lot easier to push through, and now Fulham have to be careful in who they chose to bring in, while turning their loans from last season into permanents is a more drawn out process, despite the players having played at Craven Cottage last season.

All of that will be having an effect on Fulham's transfer business this summer, meaning a more considered approach is needed.

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The domino effect

A well-used cliche for the summer transfer window, but a true one.

So far, there are six teams in the Premier League who are yet to do any business, with Fulham being one of them, with new boys Wolves looking to be the most active so far.

However, Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea are yet to open their chequebook this summer, while the other big clubs have only added a couple of new faces to their side.

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It happens every season, but once one big deal goes through, it's a domino effect for the others and we'll almost certainly see a flurry of deals happen with a week or two of one another.

At the start of pre-season, it's almost like a stand off with selling club, buying club and player all wanting the best deal for themselves.

Returning to pre-season

Clubs are only just returning to pre-season training this week and will want to have a chance to see their players return before they make decisions on their futures.

This will be the case for both loan and transfer deals - most clubs will want their players who are marked to go out on loan to start pre-season with them before making the move to their new club for the year.

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That's what happened last year with Sheyi Ojo, who started the summer with Liverpool, allowing his parent club to get a look of him before he made the move down south.

July 2 marks the beginning of the pre-season programme for most, so we should start to see the transfer window winding up now ahead of August 9.